Bert Ward Email & Phone Number

Robert (Bert) Ward Jr., is a native of Alamance County. Since the mid-1990s, Bert has been actively involved in the purchase, sale, renovation and management of residential properties, and has worked for some of the Triangle's and Triad's top-ranked real estate companies Coldwell Banker - Howard Perry & Walston (HPW), Coldwell Banker – Triad REALTORS® (CBTR), and Keller Williams Realty – Burlington Market Center.Bert obtained his real estate sales license in the summer of 1996, and went to work for Coldwell Banker – Alamance Realty in Burlington. Bert then transferred to Better Homes & Gardens – Howard, Perry & Walston (HPW), as a new construction on-site sales agent at Mill Creek Golf Club in Mebane, representing nationally recognized custom home builders C. Richard Dobson (now part of D.R. Horton America's Builder) and John Wieland Homes.By 1998, Bert had acquired a few investment properties, obtained his broker’s license, and went to work for Dan Mohr Real Estate Schools, in Greensboro, NC. While employed there Bert obtained his Residential Appraisal Trainee's license and in 2000, began appraising for LandAmerica OneStop (formerly Primis Appraisals, and last known as eAppraiseIT). In 2002, Bert received his NC State Certified Residential Appraiser's license and founded Alamance Appraisals-Black Diamond Real Estate. From 2002 – 2006, Bert completed more than 1200 appraisals. After the most challenging years in the real estate market since the Great Depression of the early 1930s, Bert decided to get back into real estate sales full-time, in late 2010. Bert then went to work for Coldwell Banker – Triad Realtors in Burlington (CBTR). A few months later, Bert transferred to Coldwell Banker – Howard, Perry & Walston (HPW) in Mebane. In less than two years, Bert received the Coldwell Banker International President's Elite award in 2012, which recognizes their top 2 percent of all sales associates in the world. In 2012 Bert and his wife opened up their own real estate firm, Black Diamond Real Estate, and two years later, Bert was appointed as a Director to the Burlington-Alamance County Association of REALTORS board, serving two terms from 2014 - 2016. In 2017, Bert was appointed to serve as an Officer to the Burlington-MLS Board, which requires its board members to be active practicing brokers-in-charge. Two years later, Bert served as President of the MLS Board, and In 2020, Bert was appointed to serve on the MLS board for an additional three years, and began appraising again in the Alamance County market.

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